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This paper concerns a first-order algorithmic technique for a class of optimal control problems defined on switched-mode hybrid systems. The salient feature of the algorithm is that it avoids the computation of Fr\'echet or G\^ateaux…

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We present a quantum algorithm for simulating a family of Markovian master equations that can be realized through a probabilistic application of unitary channels and state preparation. Our approach employs a second-order product formula for…

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We develop a method to search for the optimal code space, induced decay rates and control Hamiltonian to implement autonomous quantum error correction (AQEC) for a general open quantum system. The system is defined by a free-evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Sahel Ashhab

Dual control denotes a class of control problems where the parameters governing the system are imperfectly known. The challenge is to find the optimal balance between probing, i.e. exciting the system to understand it more, and caution,…

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The Lindblad quantum master equation is one of the central approaches to the physics of open quantum systems. In particular, boundary driving enables the study of transport, where a steady state emerges in the long-time limit, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-20 Markus Kraft , Mariel Kempa , Jiaozi Wang , Robin Steinigeweg

We address a wide spectrum of quantum control strategies, including various open-loop protocols and advanced adaptive methods. These methodologies apply to few-qubit scenarios and naturally scale to larger N-qubit systems. We benchmark them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Atta ur Rahman , M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , Cong-feng Qiao

Quantum many-body control is among most challenging problems in quantum science, due to computational complexity of related underlying problems. We propose an efficient approach for solving a class of control problems for many-body quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 I. A. Luchnikov , M. A. Gavreev , A. K. Fedorov

This paper considers the optimal control problem for realizing logical gates in a closed quantum system. The quantum state is governed by Schrodinger's equation, which we formulate as a time-dependent Hamiltonian system in terms of the real…

We develop a framework of "semi-automatic differentiation" that combines existing gradient-based methods of quantum optimal control with automatic differentiation. The approach allows to optimize practically any computable functional and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Michael H. Goerz , Sebastián C. Carrasco , Vladimir S. Malinovsky

We develop randomized quantum algorithms to simulate quantum collision models, also known as repeated interaction schemes, which provide a rich framework to model various open-system dynamics. The underlying technique involves composing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Kushagra Garg , Zeeshan Ahmed , Subhadip Mitra , Shantanav Chakraborty

Simple, precise, and robust control is demanded for operating a large quantum information processor. However, existing routes to high-fidelity quantum control rely heavily on arbitrary waveform generators that are difficult to scale up.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Qi-Ming Chen , Herschel Rabitz , Re-Bing Wu

Quantum control is valuable for various quantum technologies such as high-fidelity gates for universal quantum computing, adaptive quantum-enhanced metrology, and ultra-cold atom manipulation. Although supervised machine learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Pantita Palittapongarnpim , Peter Wittek , Ehsan Zahedinejad , Shakib Vedaie , Barry C. Sanders

We propose nearly-optimal control strategies for changing states of a quantum system. We argue that quantum control optimization can be studied analytically within some protocol families that depend on a small set of parameters for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Chen Sun , Avadh Saxena , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

We show that if an efficient classical representation of the dynamics exists, optimal control problems on many-body quantum systems can be solved efficiently with finite precision. We show that the size of the space of parameters necessary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 S. Lloyd , S. Montangero

Quantum control allows us to address the problem of engineering quantum dynamics for special purposes. While recently the field of quantum batteries has attracted much attention, optimization of their charging has not benefited from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 R. R. Rodriguez , B. Ahmadi , G. Suarez , P. Mazurek , S. Barzanjeh , P. Horodecki

An efficient optimal-control theory based on the Krotov method is introduced for a non-Markovian open quantum system with a time-nonlocal master equation in which the control parameter and the bath correlation function are correlated. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Bin Hwang , Hsi-Sheng Goan

The question of controllability is investigated for a quantum control system in which the Hamiltonian operator components carry explicit time dependence which is not under the control of an external agent. We consider the general situation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chunhua Lan , Tzyh-Jong Tarn , Quo-Shin Chi , John W. Clark

In this paper, we introduce a novel and general framework for the variational quantum simulation of Lindblad equations. Building on the close relationship between the unraveled Lindblad dynamics, stochastic Magnus integrators, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Jia-Cheng Huang , Hao-En Li , Yi-Cheng Wang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Jun Li , Han-Shi Hu

Simulating the unitary dynamics of a quantum system is a fundamental problem of quantum mechanics, in which quantum computers are believed to have significant advantage over their classical counterparts. One prominent such instance is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 John M. Martyn , Yuan Liu , Zachary E. Chin , Isaac L. Chuang

In this study, we address the challenge of controlling quantum systems under environmental influences using the theory of dynamical invariants. We employ a reverse engineering approach to develop control protocols designed to be robust…

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